It has been determined already (see this question ) that tar cannot archive a file reading the file itself from stdin.
How could a dd output be directly archived without compression? The purpose of ...

I have developed a project using monodevelop and saved it. The monodevelop as usual created a .exe file of it for me, But problem with the project is that,"It works perfect, When I start debugging it ...

I'm trying to install server 14.04 and am trying to get to the mirrors but none is working. (I can get it running online).
I am also having a hard time understanding the other mirrors if someone can ...

How to make a backup of apt archive cache? If I make a backup of the archive cache can I install the applications in the current system to any system, which is running the same OS, using the archive ...

I have a problem trying to install some drivers for my printer. I have a .tar archive with some .tar.tar archives and .deb archives. I wonder how can I install them.
Uncle Google told me only about ...

I want to create a file manifest (list of file/folder names, directory structure, and file metadata) of my home folder. I do not want the actual content of the files to be saved.
How can this be done ...

There are a lot of archives I'm trying to extract, but when i extract a folder with files in it or a folder with many folders and files in it, all the files are extracted out of the folders. How do i ...

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with an EPSON WF 2540 printer.
The printer drivers come from the Epson Linux download centre and so far have been working ok.
The question here for me is how to log every ...

I was trying to install some custom themes on my computer running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS yesterday, but with little success. The next day I realized that my failed attempts at getting a theme going resulted ...

Not long I have decided to make a compress of my archives .deb / tar.gz, on only one archive. No problem I compress, and I used split command to break that archive in many parts to (upload - backup) ...

I recently wanted to try out Fedora. So I transfered all my files to it via USB. Then I got frustrated with it, placed all my files in a 7z archive and then copied them back to the drive. Now, every ...

I installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10. I previously had Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 and had all the archives in the /var/cache/apt/archives/ stored to a removable disk. After installing 13.10 I copied all my archives ...